In 2003, $72 million in foreign investment flowed into the city's economy, reported Lutsk deputy mayor Serhiy Tarasyuk. This accounts for about 90 percent of the investment that flowed into the economy of Volyn Oblast in 2003.\nThe deepening of cooperation with foreign business partners and the attraction of investment was also facilitated by the signing last year of cooperation agreements with the Polish city of Olsztyn and the Chinese city of Qiantang. In the sale of its goods and services, the city focuses primarily on the domestic market, and only then on Russia and the West.\n"Lutsk has shown its ability to receive investors, and they came," said Serhiy Tarasyuk.\n